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NRZ to bring 100,000 tons of maize from Tanzania
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) will transport 100,000 tons of corn from Tanzania as the country seeks to overcome a severe shortage of the staple due to drought and floods from a cyclone....Published: 4 hrs ago | 341 | by Bloomberg
Zanu-PF's Harare, Bulawayo restructuring complete by December
ZANU-PF expects the Bulawayo and Harare restructuring exercise to be completed before the 2019 party's annual conference to be hosted by Mashonaland East Province, political commissar Victor Matemadan...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:47hrs | 54 | by Staff reporter
Police shoot car's wheels to stop smuggler
BEITBRIDGE police on Saturday shot at a suspected smuggler who bolted into the night, abandoning a latest model Land Rover Discovery believed to have been illegally brought into the country.Th...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:01hrs | 1927 | by Staff reporter
How Mnangagwa arm-twisted Mugabe family to force Heroes Acre burial
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government used strong-arm tactics to force Robert Mugabe's family to lift their objections to his burial at the National Heroes Acre burial, it was reported on Sunday....Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 01:08hrs | 4853 | by ZimLive
Zanu-PF owns Blue Roof, Bona Mugabe's residence
ZANU-PF has title to former President Robert Mugabe's houses - the imposing Blue Roof mansion in Borrowdale and a Mount Pleasant property occupied by his daughter, Bona, details have emerged. ...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 07:09hrs | 10047 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF regularises Blue Roof title deeds
ZANU-PF has title to the late former President Robert Mugabe's houses namely the imposing Blue Roof mansion in Borrowdale and a Mount Pleasant house occupied by his daughter, Bona. President M...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:48hrs | 1240 | by Staff reporter
LIVE: Funeral service of Robert Mugabe
The funeral of the late Zimbabwe's strongman Robert Mugabe is currently underway at the National Sports Stadium. Heads of states and other dignitaries started arriving on Friday to attend the service....Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 09:59hrs | 4311 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Kanyemba villagers call for a GMB deport
Villagers in Kanyemba have called on the government to give them a Grain Marketing Board deport in their constituency following their failure to raise transport fees.A survey by this publicati...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 23:35hrs | 284 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe, China sign ICT pact
ZIMBABWE and China yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the advancement of ICTs between the two countries, in yet another sign of the growing interest of cooperation between the tw...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 06:54hrs | 100 | by Staff reporter
Imperial forces behind xenophobia
The western imperial forces are adopting new and comprehensive strategies to destabilise and eventually overthrow SADC governments that they do not view as allies amidst suspicions that the same force...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 15:23hrs | 1608 | by Sizalubuhle Khumalo
Full house at Mnangagwa's SA dinner
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has implored foreign investors to consider investing in Zimbabwe saying the country was now ready for take-off following nearly two decades of isolation. The country has be...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:03hrs | 337 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ready for take off, says President
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has implored foreign investors to consider Zimbabwe, saying the country was now ready for take-off following nearly two decades of isolation. Zimbabwe has been reeling under sancti...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 06:55hrs | 309 | by STaff reporter
Mutodi is a lunatic
When we said tribalism is institutionalised system in Zimbabwe you didn't understand now hopefully you get it that when a whole minister thinks that Matabeleland people are not Zimbabweans it actually...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 13:09hrs | 3061 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Zimbabwe engages Zambia, Mozambique over power supply
GOVERNMENT has opened fresh talks with Zambia and Mozambique for additional electricity supply as the situation remains dire due to obsolete infrastructure at Hwange Thermal Power Station and low wate...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:35hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
Fatal crash at Umguza bridge
ONE person died on the spot while six others were injured when a Toyota Sprinter they were travelling in burst its rear left tyre and collided head on with an Isuzu King Cab at the 11km peg along the ...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:33hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
Hwange breakdowns reverse improvement in electricity availability
A breakdown of three power generation units at Hwange Thermal Power Station recently, has seen Zesa increasing load-shedding across the country, Cabinet has observed. This reverses the i...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:27hrs | 167 | by Staff reporter
Fifa wants unloved Chiyangwa back at Zifa
FIFA believe a solution could still be found to the crisis engulfing Zimbabwe football and have opened an avenue for dialogue between ZIFA president Felton Kamambo and COSAFA boss Philip Chiyangwa. Th...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:17hrs | 817 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe engages Japan on major roadworks
GOVERNMENT has applied to the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for multi-million dollar funding for four major road projects including the construction of missing links on Harare Drive, P...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:38hrs | 319 | by Staff reporter
Civil service undergoing massive overhaul
Public Service Commission (PSC) chairperson Vincent Hungwe has revealed that the civil service is under massive transformation to improve professionalism and efficiencies.In an exclusive inter...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:51hrs | 1556 | by Staff reporter
Government releases $46m for water projects
TREASURY has released $46 million to the District Development Fund (DDF) to help drill 600 boreholes that will provide clean water for consumption and irrigation, especially in the country's eight rur...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:46hrs | 104 | by Staff reporter
Normal rainy season forecast
GOVERNMENT will begin procuring inputs this week and distribute them to farmers by the end of the month to enable them to timeously prepare for the 2019-2020 summer cropping season, which experts beli...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:39hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
Massive boost for agriculture
Government will begin procuring inputs this week and distribute them to farmers by the end of the month to enable them to timeously prepare for the 2019-2020 summer cropping season, which experts beli...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:37hrs | 112 | by Staff reporter
NPA restructure underway
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has begun removing all personnel seconded from the police and military in compliance with a recent Constitutional Court judgment.Following the establis...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:35hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mortgages Zimbabwe to Afreximbank
President Mnangagwa yesterday successfully negotiated a fresh financial package for Zimbabwe from the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) after meeting the bank's chairperson, Professor Benedict ...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:05hrs | 785 | by Staff reporter
Load-shedding back to Stage 2
Zesa HOLDINGS has reverted to Stage Two load-shedding schedule hardly two weeks after assuring consumers of significant relief. Zesa spokesperson Mr Fullard Gwasira earlier this month said the...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 07:59hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
Communities narrate challenges in getting IDs
PUBLIC hearings on the national inquiry on access to documentation in the country are underway in Matabeleland South Province with witnesses giving accounts on challenges faced in accessing the vital ...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:35hrs | 375 | by Staff reporter
Platform One collabo excites Sisa Senkosi
UNITED Kingdom-based Maskandi artiste Sisa Senkosi has released a wedding song, "Ngiyavuma, I Do", a collaboration track with South Africa's Platform One and Soul Brothers' keyboardist "Black" Moses N...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa threatens CITES pull-out
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said Zimbabwe is contemplating pulling out of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to fully benefit from its conservation...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:35hrs | 555 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland North teachers' college set up in Hwange
A SATELLITE teachers' college established by Government in Hwange, Matabeleland North province is now operational with the initial enrolment standing at 150 students. Higher and Tertiary Educa...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 06:57hrs | 818 | by Staff reporter
Sasai, Ecocash bureau de change to marry
Sasai App, a product of Cassava International and the first of its kind in Africa with several integrations and via three main functions of pay, chat and explore has integrated the newly launched Ecoc...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 06:52hrs | 689 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to meet Shinzo Abe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will this week meet Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), a major engagement set to unl...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:43hrs | 219 | by Staff reporter
US Tendai Biti to take over from Chamisa ahead of 2023 polls?
United States officials who last week feted opposition St Marys legislator Job Sikhala at his house in Chitungwiza are rooting for the party's vice president, Tendai Biti, to take charge of the party ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:40hrs | 6597 | by Staff reporter
Pastor 'expels' congregant for not tithing?
A REVEREND with Church of Central African Presbyterian (CCAP) in Sizinda, Bulawayo reportedly sparked outrage among his congregants when one of the worshippers stopped going to church amid allegations...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:27hrs | 2882 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe under siege once again
IT'S like deja vu - we have been here before! Zimbabwe is once again in the spotlight with the West, its local quislings in the opposition Movement for Democratic Change fronted by Mr Nelson Cha...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:08hrs | 580 | by Editorial - chronicle
Probe underway on Gonyeti 'kidnapping'
Government is concerned about allegations of Samantha "Gonyeti" Kureya's kidnapping and assault by unknown masked men which occurred on Wednesday night. Gonyeti is a comedian and an artiste at...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:38hrs | 559 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF getting ready for 2023 elections
ZANU-PF is like a sleeping giant which is often teased by smaller political parties which have no political ideology, but those parties remain teaser bulls, nothing more. The party works in ve...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | 221 | by Elijah Chihota
Teachers threaten chalks down
TEACHERS have threatened to withdraw their labour when schools open for the third term next month to force government to pay them in United States dollars or the equivalent of US$550 at the interbank ...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | 519 | by Staff reporter
No pay, no invigilation: Zimsec told
TEACHERS have threatened to withdraw invigilation services in the Zimbabwe School Examination Council (Zimsec) October to November examinations if the public exam body reneges on paying them their due...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 15:09hrs | 657 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe targets Japan for investment
Zimbabwe is targeting the forthcoming Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) as part of the "open for business" drive to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) needed t...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 08:06hrs | 369 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa in show of force to thwart MDC Bulawayo demo
Anti-riot police were out in full force in Bulawayo on Monday to thwart any attempts by members of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to stage its planned demonstration.Most parts of the...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 15:37hrs | 3337 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's packed in-tray as Organ Troika chair
As President Emmerson Mnangagwa assumes the chairmanship of the Sadc Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation - also known as Organ Troika - from his counterpart from the sister republic of...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:34hrs | 2814 | by Staff reporter
Woman scalds hubby for not picking her from church
A BULAWAYO woman allegedly severely scalded her husband with boiling water, peeling most of the skin from his body, in a fit of rage after he forgot to pick her from church.Mr Davies Chitagu h...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 13:24hrs | 2688 | by Staff reporter
Gweru suspends corrupt workers
TWO Gweru City Council (GCC) employees have been suspended for allegedly illegally subcontracting themselves to provide services to private land developers. Town clerk, Ms Elizabeth Gwat...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:27hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
No one has monopoly over rights claim, says Zimbabwe police
Police say no one has the monopoly of speaking on rights, while mobilising other people to engage in lawless activities.Speaking to ZBC News after the High Court had just upheld a police prohi...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 14:49hrs | 784 | by Staff reporter
Mupfumira denied bail again
Former Minister of Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry Prisca Mupfumira's second bid for freedom has flopped as she has been denied bail at the High Court today.Mupfumira has been ch...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 13:30hrs | 2466 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Police fatally beat elderly woman during protests
Police in Harare fatally beat up an elderly lady who during the protests that happened in Harare on Friday. A video footage which has gone viral shows police descending on the protesters and b...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 11:12hrs | 8085 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa government blames G40 for activists' abduction
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has blamed an apparent abduction attempt on some rights and opposition activists on a Zanu-PF faction once led by Grace Mugabe, wife to ousted President Rober...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:22hrs | 331 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's govt probes 'abduction, torture' of members of the public
THE Government is investigating alleged human rights violations following the "abduction and torture" of members of the public by unknown people recently. In a statement yesterday, Information...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 00:04hrs | 1176 | by Staff reporter
Free condoms
THE Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council (ZNFPC) has said sexually active people should not panic over a recent increase in price of condoms as the organisation continued to issue them free of ch...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 00:03hrs | 1095 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt worried by alleged abductions
Government is concerned with the cases of alleged abductions and torture of citizens by unknown assailants and is looking into the cases to ensure citizens are treated with dignity and respect....Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 18:30hrs | 1034 | by Staff reporter
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